tracking Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Gulls follow the harvest cycle of rice

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-05-03T13:06:43+00:005 May 2022|agriculture, anthropogenic food sources, behaviour, bird movements, fieldwork, foraging, gps tags, habitat selection, land use, movement, overwintering, plastics, pollution, remote sensing, tracking, water quality|

Human activities determine the daily schedule of overwintering birds in Spain.

Nest-switching Storks

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-04-15T09:02:32+00:0021 Apr 2022|behaviour, bird movements, Breeding, displacement, Genetics, gps tags, movement, nest monitoring, nestlings, occurrence data, population dynamics, ringing, tracking|

What is the best method to quantify the frequency of nest-switching?

Connecting vultures to the Internet of Things

By Jethro Gauld|2021-12-21T12:08:29+00:0020 Dec 2021|bio-logging, birds of prey, BOU-funded, early career, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, gps tags, movement, raptors, satellite tracking, scavengers, soaring birds, tracking, vultures|

A new way to track bird movements using a growing LoRa network

Tracking the elusive Manx Shearwater

By Saskia Wischnewski|2021-01-04T17:00:55+00:0028 Dec 2020|Seabirds, tracking|

The Irish record breakers

The smallest Mediterranean seabird makes the longest foraging trips

By Andreu Rotger|2020-10-05T20:27:01+00:0010 Aug 2020|foraging, gps tags, Seabirds, tracking|

Mediterranean Storm Petrels travel more than 1,500 km in 3-4 days

Fledging into the wild

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2020-12-15T12:45:00+00:0026 Mar 2020|automated radiotelemetry, mark‐recapture, MOTUS, survival, tracking|

What determines survival of juvenile Barn Swallows during the post-fledgling period?

Best ECR IBIS paper – 2019

By Steve Dudley|2020-12-15T13:03:09+00:0021 Mar 2020|carry-over effects, condition, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, News, tracking|

And the winner is . . .

Do back-pack transmitters affect breeding performance?

By Robert J. Burnside|2020-12-15T14:38:59+00:0010 Feb 2020|nesting success, News, satellite tracking, tracking|

No effect of back-pack transmitters on breeding performance in a migratory bustard

The ‘Round Island’ petrel conundrum

By Kirsty Franklin|2020-12-15T17:24:44+00:0022 Aug 2019|BOU Warham Student, ECR, Round Island petrel, Seabirds, tracking|

The first BOU John & Pat Warham Studentship

Regular overland migration of Arctic Terns

By Chris Redfern|2020-10-12T14:24:38+00:0025 Mar 2019|geolocator, Migration, Seabirds, tracking|

Arctic Terns migrate on a global scale and marine routes can take second place to overland migration